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Letter from Henry Clarke Wright, Philadelphia, [Pennsylvania], to Maria Weston Chapman, 1839 May 2
1839-05-02
Wright, Henry Clarke, 1797-1870, Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885
Holograph, signed.
- Title:
- Letter from Henry Clarke Wright, Philadelphia, [Pennsylvania], to Maria Weston Chapman, 1839 May 2
- Creator:
- Wright, Henry Clarke, 1797-1870, Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885
- Date Created:
- 1839-05-02
- Description:
Holograph, signed.
Title devised by cataloger.
Henry Clarke Wright writes to Maria Weston Chapman in regards to his impression that the conflict among abolitionists in the Massachusetts region grows out of "personal animosities, a desire to see who shall be greatest in the kingdom of Abolition-& that nothing more is necessary to heal all divisions than for the combattants to lay aside all personal dislikes & prejudices, cease to call each other hard names, stroke hands & be good friends." He discusses the divisions between the new organization and the old one on account of those who believe "the admission of women to deliberate & vote in all meetings & the formation of the Non-Resistance Society will finally ruin the Anti-Slavery Cause." He says he has talked to Whittier and told him that he misrepresented the state of things in Massachusetts. Lucretia Mott & C.C. Burleigh would rather see it "rightly." He then gives a full account of the matters discussed at the Quarterly meeting, including Lucretia Mott's defiance of the mayor in the matter of walking to the meetings with African Americans.
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- Partner:
- Digital Commonwealth
- Contributing Institution:
- Boston Public Library
- Subjects:
- Women abolitionists--United States--19th century--Correspondence
Antislavery movements--Societies, etc--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--Anti-slavery fairs--United States--History--19th century
African American social reformers--United States--History--19th century
Nonviolence--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--Newspapers--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--Publishing--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--Meetings--United States--History--19th century
Women abolitionists--United States
Antislavery movements--United States
Societies
African Americans--Civil rights--History--19th century
African American social reformers
Nonviolence
Publishers and publishing
Meetings
Women's rights--United States--History--19th century
Liberator (Boston, Mass. : 1831)
Wright, Henry Clarke 1797-1870
Whittier, John Greenleaf 1807-1892
Mott, Lucretia 1793-1880
Garrison, William Lloyd 1805-1879
Chapman, Maria Weston 1806-1885
Burleigh, Charles C. (Charles Calistus) 1810-1878 - Type:
- text
- Format:
- CorrespondenceManuscripts
- Rights:
- No known restrictions on use.
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